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Glenshee Ski Center

Off season

Glenshee Ski Center is a ski area in United Kingdom, at about 743 m. Its mapped area is about 5.0 km across, with 40 marked runs and 22 lifts (about 22 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 166 cm of snowfall a season, 1,457th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 2nd in the United Kingdom. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (226 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2024/25 (95 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 50 cm.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature
3.8℃
Max wind
29.2km/h
Elevation
743m
Across
5.0km

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
166 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
95 cm
A typical winter: 167 cm. The best: 226 cm.
World rank
1457
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 9 in United Kingdom
Elevation rank
1
Highest to lowest, of 9 in United Kingdom. The centre point sits at 743 m, 663 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 66% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United Kingdom (71%). In amount, March brings 33 cm, more than the median of 3 cm.

39cm
Dec
50cm
Jan
45cm
Feb
33cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 166 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 95 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 226 cm (2.4 times as much). For 33% of the 9 ski areas in the United Kingdom, the leanest winter was the same 2024/25: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

95
226
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
40
Run length
22km
Lifts
22
Vertical
393m
Top 1,028 m · base 635 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 26%
East 32%
South 14%
West 29%

58% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 18
Easy 11
Intermediate 8
Advanced 3

Lift types

  • Platter15
  • T-bar3
  • Chairlift3
  • Rope tow1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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